Using Your Voice of the Customer (VOC) to Meet Customer Requirements and Improve Business Performance

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM EDT

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Most companies today are facing a highly competitive environment to satisfy clients and increase market share, while managing resources. Even within Process Excellence teams, the focus needs to be on resources pertaining to the initiatives and areas of the business that will impact customer satisfaction and drive increased business process performance.

It becomes all too easy to become internally focused on the wants and needs of the business (Voice of the Business) to drive business performance and to convince stakeholders that the organization is aligned with what customers want and need (Voice of the customer).

A recent study conducted by Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ and Market Value Solutions concluded that companies that used Voice of the Customer (VOC) and Voice of the Market (VOM) to drive their Business Process Excellence (BPE) initiatives reported a higher rate of having a highly successful BPE deployment versus companies that relied on Voice of the Business (VOB) to drive their initiatives. 19 percent of the VOC/VOM companies rated their BPE deployments as highly successful, as compared to seven percent of the VOB companies.

During this Webinar, participants will learn to improve BPE deployment by:

Dr. Diane Francisco joined Covance six years ago in Madison, Wisconsin, where she led the Validation team in the Bioanalytical Chemistry group and was responsible for validating bioanalytical methods and supporting pharmacokinetic (PK) and toxicokinetic (TK) studies. Given her success with this team, she was soon asked to lead the Bioanalytical Operations teams. After completing her Master Black Belt training in 2007, Dr. Francisco accepted a position as Associate Director, Master Black Belt, for Early Development. During her tenure in the Process Excellence group, Dr. Francisco introduced both Lean and Design methodologies, making the process improvement initiative more flexible in solving process problems. Her leadership in driving Process Excellence includes advising more than 100 projects that resulted in savings of more than $8 million for Covance.

Prior to Covance, Dr. Francisco held operational and quality leadership positions at Third Wave Technologies, a medical device company, and at Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc. (PPD), as a leader in their early drug development business and bioanalytical departments. Dr. Francisco holds a doctorate in analytical chemistry from Purdue University and Master Black Belt certification from SSA & Company.

In her current role as Director of Client Solutions at Covance, Dr. Francisco is responsible for partnering across Covance and with their clients to deliver meaningful improvements in Commercial and Operational integration that impact cost, quality and delivery.

Dr. Francisco serves on the advisory board for PEX Network. She is an active speaker at IQPC summits and judge for the global Process Excellence Awards.

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